SEPTEMBER INCENTIVE ON TWC!!!
So yeah, as unbelievable as it is, we’re celebrating 25 years of Puck! This stupid comic was started a quarter century ago by some dumb teen. Now that teen is old and has back pains and the comic is still somehow going. Let’s celebrate!
VOTE TO CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES!!!
As for this comic…
Looking at Colin’s face in panel four, he knows what he’s doing. First hit is always free.
The game that Colin is playing, coincidentally, is Bayonetta. (Maybe Bayonetta 2, possibly Bayonetta 3, though fewer angels get their wings ripped off in that one.) I won’t bore people with my personal history with the game series, but this much I’ll say: it’s certainly the kind of thing that Satan could get behind. And those who REALLY know the game will pick up from the Enochian incantation that the particular demon Bayonetta is summoning here is Gomorrah. Simple but classic.
yes, feel the joy of wing being torn off.
So if a human tempts the devil himself does that mean the human is more evil or is the devil less evil.
It is a particular joy.
He’s found something he likes.
Hey, when you find it, you run with it.
Are video games addictive enough to tempt Satan?
Yes.
Yes they are!
This has been a public service message from Puck!
Knowing is half the battle.
GI JOOOOOE!
So if a human tempts the devil himself does that mean the human is more evil or is the devil less evil. Also I know I already said this. I just wanted to make it it’s own comment.
I think the devil is less evil here. He’s been lowering on his evil quota for some time.
I submit that Satan is not necessarily less evil, but rather has fallen victim to his own cardinal sin of sloth. He obviously got lazy and comfortable with his lifestyle until he was deposed. His sloth is now so ingrained that being a couch potato with Colin seems attractive.
You submit correctly.
I don’t drink, I’ve never smoked, I don’t do drugs… but my god am I addicted to video games.
Same here. A friend of my mother said I am the “perfect son”. “He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t do drugs, he hasn’t gotten a girl pregnant, and he isn’t in trouble with the police. What’s not to love?”
I’m waiting for Bayonetta 6: In 3D 12K.
It’ll take a long time. Platinum Games takes for freakin’ EVER to release them.
Even when paired with the full haptic feedback including the micro fiber crotch inlay?
Ew.
Yeah, I thought that referencing “READY PLAYER ONE” would pay off for the joke.
Sooo, what game is that again?
Asking for a friend.
One of the Bayonettas. there’s 4 iirc. A couple are Nintendo only, which is weird.
There have been three mainline games. The third dropped not that long ago for the Switch. And yes, they’re Nintendo exclusives. Which is AWESOME.
Hey EG, is that an Easter egg on the bookshelf?
Specifically, next to the teapot.
Nah, that’s a teapot handle.
Ba-dum Tish.
But no, I thought you might be drawing a “Spot The Difference” to keep us on our toes and see who is paying attention.
I’m not that good.
Depends on how hot the angel, the demon, or the chick is.
With the game in question, they’re all pretty hot.
“Naw, I’m good.’ That’s kinda the problem there, Satan!
He’s not even good. He’s meh. Which is the greatest indignity.
Sure sit on my couch and play my game with me. As always, the first one is always free.
You know how this works, I see.
As long as there’s still music, keep dancing.
With the way that game scaled up, I thought to myself “We’re gonna have to punch the final boss into a volcano to top this”.
They didn’t. They did something better.
(For reference, I’m thinking the first game)
Honestly, the ‘over the top’ nature of the series can get a little tiring at times. The third game’s final boss had about, oh, twelve forms? Around twelve. With fake ending cutscenes between each. And at least one fake credit roll, if I remember correctly. I mean, they know what they’re doing and they’re making a joke of it, but kinda tiring.
It did drag on a bit for sure, though the phases had some doses of “awesome”. And yes, there were kinda two credit rolls (the sad one and the one we were waiting for, complete with their mid-credit fight segments).
No More Heroes 3 had a few phases for the final boss too, but not nearly as many. Though one of those was “Press A” and the last phase was doing what Nintendo couldn’t. (NMH left me some crazy memories).
It’s a ‘more is more’ franchise, for sure. I was somewhat overwhelmed by how 3 went in and introduced multiple characters, about twelve unique weapons with their own play styles, twelve unique demons with their own play styles, separate skill trees for all of them, and by the end I was just exhausted by choice.
I cannot master a game like that. But I can have dumb fun with it.
Although, I’m kind of curious if gingerbread could substitute for graham crackers for a cheesecake crust.
It’d work.
You just have to show the devil something that looks pretty to him. Summoning a demon to tear the wings off the angel might have been a normal Tuesday afternoon in the past.
Play to your audience, right?
Turn Satan onto a game like Chrono Trigger and challenge him to open every ending. To my knowledge, with slight variations, there are 15.
I am not sure Colin is up to the task of getting Satan into JRPGs.
Uh Oh.
TRACEEE / SATAN are fitting in all too well….
I love that Satan is snarking on the evilness of the video game industry while wearing the t-shirt of the most widely panned video game of all time.
An irony he likely doesn’t even comprehend.
I actually liked ET for 5he amount of time given. The exec’s waited an ET game by that Christmas. It was summer when the creators were given the order.
I am a huge Atari E.T. apologist. I loved that game. It was difficult, but it actually had many different difficulty settings, and once you got used to controlling E.T. when levitating, it got quite approachable. I beat that game endlessly as a one of the best titles on the 2600. It was just a bit too ambitious for its time.
I think that he just provided capital and not direction.
Indeed. He’s not the mastermind; he’s the money.
It’s wonderful to see a human tempting Satan for a change. He will get so hooked on that video game, they’ll have to pry the control out of his claws. :))